Question | Answer | % Correct |
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Who gave the famous "I Have a Dream" speech? | Martin Luther King Jr. | 96%
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What was the name of the spaceflight program that landed humans on the moon from 1969–1972? | Apollo | 88%
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What was John F. Kennedy's middle name? | Fitzgerald | 84%
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In what year did the U.S enter World War II? | 1941 | 81%
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first battles in the American revolution. In what state did they take place? | Massachusetts | 76%
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Which war killed the most Americans? | Civil War | 74%
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In the Constitution, each state gets a number of Representatives based on its population. Were slaves counted as part of the population? | Slaves were counted as 3/5ths | 70%
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Who was President at the time of the Louisiana Purchase? | Thomas Jefferson | 70%
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Who was the first president to be impeached? | Andrew Johnson | 67%
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What country was blamed for the sinking of the USS Maine in 1898? | Spain | 67%
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What party did Presidents Tyler, Taylor, Fillmore, and Harrison belong to? | Whig | 62%
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In exchange for the USSR taking its missiles out of Cuba, which of these countries did the U.S. remove missiles from? | Turkey | 61%
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Which of these cities has not hosted the Olympics? | Chicago | 56%
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The Fortune 500 measures the largest companies by revenue. What company topped the Fortune 500 in 1970? | General Motors | 47%
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Which of these structures was once the tallest in the world? | Washington Monument | 37%
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